Park Geun-hye

News about Park Geun-hye, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 3, 2015

Former South Korean Prime Min Lee Wan-Koo and South Gyeongsang Province Gov Hong Joo-pyo are indicted on charges of receiving illegal campaign donations. MORE

Jun. 23, 2015

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Min Shinzo Abe call on people of their countries to set aside historical grievances and focus on shared strategic interests in Asia-Pacific region; each is received at other country's embassy in events marking 50 years of diplomatic relations. MORE

Jun. 13, 2015

Failure of South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye's administration to contain outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome has shaken country's confidence in her capability; critics and political analysts say failure has called into question her ability to address number of issues facing the country. MORE

May. 16, 2015

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye warns of growing uncertainty in region due to North Korea's hostilities along two countries' border, days after reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un executed one of his top generals. MORE

Apr. 28, 2015

South Korean Prime Min Lee Wan-koo, facing possible prosecution in bribery scandal, steps down from largely ceremonial position; is second prime minister to resign in disgrace under Pres Park Geun-hye. MORE

Apr. 17, 2015

Families of South Korean ferry victims snub Pres Park Geun-hye and other South Korean leaders at anniversary service of the sinking. MORE

Feb. 10, 2015

South Korean appeals court sentences former intelligence chief Won Sei-hoon to 3 years in prison for using his office to smear rivals of Pres Park Geun-hye during 2012 election; Park, who has taken political hit for conviction, won by only 3.5 percent or 1 million votes. MORE

Jan. 17, 2015

South Korean journalists Choo Chin-woo and Kim Ou-joon are acquitted of defaming Park Ji-man, brother of South Korean President Park Geun-hye, in case seen as test of freedom of speech; reporters were sued after speculating that Park had been involved in a murder. MORE

Jan. 13, 2015

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye calls on North Korea to engage in negotiations regarding topics that will further reconciliation, such as allowing families divided by Korean War to reunite. MORE

Dec. 12, 2014

Editorial urges South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye to develop vision for reunification with North Korea; holds that reunification, while positive prospect in many ways, is being given up by South Korean youth as irrelevant or too costly; urges Park to seize opportunity to keep dream of reunification from fading. MORE

Oct. 10, 2014

Japan protests filing of charges against Japanese journalist Tatsuya Kato, former Seoul bureau chief for Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun, in Seoul; South Korean prosecutors have charged Kato with defaming South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye. MORE

Oct. 9, 2014

South Korean prosecutors indict Japanese journalist Tatsuya Kato on charges he defamed South Korea’s Pres Park Geun-hye by reporting rumors that she was absent for seven hours during the April ferry disaster because she was with a man. MORE

Oct. 3, 2014

Memo from Seoul; grieving families in Seoul, South Korea, continue their demands for a full inquiry into the April ferry disaster in which 250 high school students died, but Pres Park Geun-hye's conservative supporters have started to criticize them; disaster that initially united country now polarizes it. MORE

Sep. 20, 2014

Office of South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye says Japanese Prime Min Shinzo Abe has sent letter proposing summit meeting, conciliatory gesture after years of tensions between the two countries. MORE

Aug. 31, 2014

South Korean government, in unusual display of censorship, pulls large painting by dissident artist Hong Sung-dam from international art festival; Hong has been outspoken in his opposition to Pres Park Geun-hye's government, echoing widespread criticism of its botched rescue effort following ferry disaster, lax oversight, and resistance to a broad independent investigation. MORE

Jul. 17, 2014

United States kicks off joint naval exercise with South Korea, as South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye calls for for strong punishment if North Korea initiates a military provocation. MORE

Jul. 4, 2014

Chinese Pres Xi Jinping and South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye issue joint message to North Korea, saying they are united in their opposition to development of nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula; fail to mention how they will pursue that goal. MORE

Jun. 26, 2014

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye reverses her decision to replace current Prime Min Chung Hong-won, after two successive appointees stepped aside amid controversies over their qualifications. MORE

Jun. 25, 2014

Moon Chang-keuk, nominee for South Korean prime minister, withdraws amid uproar over his suggestion that Korea's colonization by Japan had been 'God's will'; Moon is the second consecutive nominee for prime minister to step aside, and situation is latest political blow to Pres Park Geun-hye. MORE

May. 29, 2014

Ahn Dae-hee, former justice handpicked to be South Korea’s new prime minister, steps aside; move deals blow to Pres Park Geun-hye as she seeks to regroup her government following accusations of corruption in wake of fatal ferry disaster. MORE

May. 23, 2014

Pres Park Geun-hye of South Korea is replacing director of her government's intelligence agency and her top national security adviser after sinking of ferry that left more than 300 dead or missing. MORE

May. 20, 2014

Editorial notes South Korean ferry disaster has prompted a period of self-examination in country, as Pres Park Geun-hye seeks to break culture of collusive ties between businesses and government regulators; holds tragedy will not have been totally in vain if it prompts meaningful change from the top of the government on down. MORE

May. 19, 2014

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye vows to disband country’s Coast Guard after its bungled rescue attempts following ferry disaster in April; offers apology for having failed to prevent sinking of ferry; says Coast Guard will be reorganized to deal more efficiently with disasters. MORE

May. 10, 2014

Parents of high school students killed in capsizing of South Korean ferry march on office of Pres Park Geun-hye in Seoul as prosecutors continue to try to determine who is responsible for the accident. MORE

Apr. 30, 2014

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye apologizes for failing to prevent ferry disaster that left 302 people, the vast majority of them high school students, dead or missing, and promises broad safety reforms. MORE

Apr. 2, 2014

North and South Korea hurl insults at each other one day after exchanging artillery fire across disputed sea border; North rejects South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye's offer of investment and humanitarian aid in exchange for giving up its nuclear weapons program. MORE

Mar. 25, 2014

Diplomatic Memo; Pres Obama will bring together estranged leaders of South Korea and Japan in The Hague, culmination of three months of intense behind-the-scenes American diplomacy. MORE

Mar. 22, 2014

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Min Shinzo Abe will talk after months of tense relations, when two leaders meet with Pres Obama on sidelines of nuclear security meeting in the Netherlands. MORE

Jan. 7, 2014

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye proposes that the two Koreas resume the reunions of families separated since the Korean War. MORE

Dec. 21, 2013

North Korea sends letter to South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye, threatening retaliatory strikes if anti-Pyongyang rallies by conservative activists in Seoul are not stopped; North has made threats in past, but latest comes amid concern that Kim Jong-un might stage attack to encourage domestic unity after execution of his uncle Jang Song-thaek. MORE

Dec. 20, 2013

South Korean Defense Ministry says at least 11 officials at its cyberwarfare unit spread online political messages praising Pres Park Geun-hye and her party or attacking their domestic opponents ahead of her 2012 election; ask prosecutors to indict officials on charges of violating a law that bans public servants from interfering in politics. MORE

Dec. 17, 2013

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye orders the military and police to increase vigilance, especially along the disputed western sea border with North Korea, after leader Kim Jong-un publicly executes his uncle and mentor Jang Song-thaek, who was believed to have been the North's second most powerful official; warns action could produce political instability and reckless action by the North. MORE

Oct. 23, 2013

Military investigators raid South Korea’s Cyberwarfare Command after four of its officials are found to have posted political messages online backing Pres Park Geun-hye and smearing her opponents during 2012 election campaign; officials are said to be linked to growing political scandal. MORE

Aug. 16, 2013

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye says that South and North Korea should resume arranging reunions of families separated by the Korean War six decades ago; renews a proposal to build peace park straddling their heavily armed border. MORE

Jul. 4, 2013

South Korea's Pres Park Geun-hye, during visit to China, offers to send back remains of about 360 Chinese soldiers killed in Korean War; offer is seen as friendly gesture highlighting warming ties between former adversaries. MORE

Jun. 27, 2013

China, which has long been North Korea’s benefactor, will signal its displeasure with Pyongyang when it welcomes South Korea's Pres Park Geun-hye for an elaborate banquet and highly anticipated meeting with China’s Pres Xi Jinping, who has called Park 'an old friend.' MORE

Jun. 26, 2013

Liberal opposition lawmakers in South Korea have begun questioning legitimacy of election that brought Pres Park Geun-hye to power; cite indictment of former National Intelligence Service director Won Sei-hoon on charges of orchestrating online smear campaign against Park’s rivals in December 19 elections. MORE

Jun. 12, 2013

South Korean state prosecutors say they will indict Won Sei-hoon, former chief of country's National Intelligence Service, on charges of illegally trying to influence December election in favor of Park Geun-hye, who was elected president. MORE

May. 14, 2013

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye apologizes over scandal in which her main spokesman Yoon Chang-jung is accused of sexual abuse and indecent exposure in Washington hotel during her state visit; accusations have upset South Koreans, who see sexual harassment as widespread problem. MORE

May. 13, 2013

South Korean prosecutors are seeking to arrest journalist Choo Chin-woo on charges of violating election laws for reporting unconfirmed suspicion ahead of presidential vote in Dec 2012 that Pres Park Geun-hye's brother might have been involved in killing of a relative. MORE

May. 12, 2013

Yoon Chang-jung, spokesman for South Korean President Park Geun-hye who was fired while on state visit to United States, denies that he groped woman hired to be his guide in Washington hotel. MORE

May. 11, 2013

South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye fires her spokesman Yoon Chang-jung, after media reported that the official groped a woman while he was traveling with Park on her state visit to Washington. MORE

May. 8, 2013

Pres Barack Obama offers endorsement of South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye's plan for defusing tensions with North Korea, which aims to rebuild trust between two nations while responding strongly to North Korea's acts of provocation; Obama warns that first move is up to North Korea's often belligerent leader Kim Jong-un. MORE

May. 7, 2013

News analysis; United States, for all its military and intelligence-gathering sophistication, is still struggling to get a fix on North Korea's weapons systems and leadership situation; lack of understanding could handicap discussions on how to handle the North in Pres Obama's upcoming meeting with South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye. MORE

Apr. 13, 2013

South Korean President Park Geun-hye's upbringing has made her as steely a leader as they come; now at the center of an escalating crisis with North Korea critics and supporters alike wonder if she may have gone too far in presenting herself as an ultratough leader. MORE

Mar. 21, 2013

Chinese Pres Xi Jinping contacts South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye, saying that his government wants to help ease escalating tensions between two Koreas. MORE

Mar. 15, 2013

North Korea's sexist taunt toward South Korean Pres Park Geun-hye raises issue of whether gender of South's first female president will color relations with northern neighbor. MORE

Mar. 14, 2013

North Korea issues direct personal attack on South Korea's first female president, Park Geun-hye, blaming rising tensions on Korean Peninsula on her 'venomous swish of skirt.' MORE

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June 5, 2015, Friday

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President Park Geun-hye of South Korea spoke on the anniversary of the ferry sinking that killed more than 300 people, most of them high school students, promising that the sunken ship would be raised.